5:24 PM,
Nov. 19, 2013

Assemblyman Jim Wheeler, standing, argues against gun background checks in the Assembly during the final day of the 2013 Legislature.

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Assemblyman Jim Wheeler, R-Minden, has a face that has forgotten how to smile.

He's been pummeled in the press, shunned and criticized by Nevada's governor and GOP U.S. Senator and other leading Republicans. And of course - by the Nevada Democratic Party. Wheeler has also been lampooned nationally, including on the Colbert Report.

It's because of his reference to slavery he made. Wheeler, at the meeting with Storey County Republicans, was making a statement about constituency service and said that he would vote to allow slavery if that is what his constituents wanted him to do. ...